- Baja
I didn't do it
So you'll let me leave, won't you?
Out of towners and their children
Watched us when we went to kill some
Wolverines who tried to hide
Their babies but the puppies cried
- Betty's Body
I could be the lover
Of anybody but her
I see her every morning
And watch her fingers forming
Shapes that are as graceful
As a baby's face full
Of hope until it turns to
- Blue Rosebuds
I love you and 'cause I do
My sky has changed
>From grey to blue
But blue's not just
A color of the rainbow
It's shade is not a hazy hue
But pure and hard
My blue sky blue
- Bossy
Sat upon an empty box of Cheerios and settled
Through the cracks of wooden floors
Forming little cone mountains
Fertile soil on which to rest
My dirty little white stone
With dimples to keep it from
Rolling down the dusty trail
Brought such straight rows
- Boxes of Armageddon
Boxes full of Armageddon, boxes full of death
Boxes sitting in my doorway, boxes someone left
For me to see
Boxes full of Armageddon, boxes full of death
For me to see
Boxes full of Armageddon, boxes full of death
For me to see
- Caring
Once there were brothers who said that they loved her
Once there were brothers who worked at the zoo
Once there were brothers who said that they loved her
Once they petted her poodle named Pooh
Once there were two With claws unretracted
A lion reacted
Once there were two With claws unretracted
- Constantinople
Here I come Constantinople
Here I come coConstantinople
I am coming Constantinople
Here I come
All the leaves are off of the oak and
All of the sheep have followed the spoken
Word. I'm coming Constantinople
- Demons Dance Alone
You can know a needle's eye
Or a hungry baby's cry
But no one knows that demons dance alone
Silver linings came and went
When I was an innocent
Never knowing demons dance alone
- Final Confrontation
We don't want your arm, we don't want your hand,
All we really want is for you to leave our land;
We don't want your foot, we don't want your toe,
All we really want is for you to pack and go;
We don't want your necks, we don't want your backs,
All we really want is for you to hit the tracks;
We don't want your nose, we don't want your lip,
All we really want is for you to take a trip;
- Forty-four No More
Once I lived on a dead end street
With a little bitty woman with big ol' feet
It was always dark, we was always poor
The number outside was forty-four
One day bad blood creeped in my mind
Sucked on my soul and made me blind
I thought she lied, so I opened the drawer
- Godsong
God never really did like man anyway
At least not after they started walking around
On their hind leg(s)
And talking on the telephone
Of course poor God's point of view wasn't easy now (to) understand
He had invented man from dead things
At that time there were no grave yards to rob
So He had been forced to use dead worms, some sea weed
- Harry the Head
The Head was hardly human
The head is finally dead
"I can live forever
In formaldehyde", he said.
Once he made me so mad
I knocked him on the floor;
He rolled around and found a
Little paint brush
- Hello Skinny
Skinny was born in a bathtub
And he grew so incredibly
Even the end of an eyedropper
sucked him in
Skinny never knew any questiong
Skinny never looked at the lights
But Skinny sold something
- I Hate Heaven
Song of Solomon
I hate heaven! I hate it! I hate it!
I hate heaven! I hate it! I hate it!
My lover calls my teeth an invitation to my soul
But he does not understand the depth of my black hole
Fed by brothers basking in the season of the sick
My love is like a deadly poison lying on my lips
- Make me moo
Their eyes are big and sweet
When they eat
I don't know why
Why can't I be a cow, anyhow?
Cows never cry
My heart was broken, broken
- My Window
Steven said little Ted was dead
I read in a letter today
The same for Monica's monkey he said
Quietly it passed away
Mister Coo Coo has fallen asleep
His eyes were black and his beak was brown
Mister Coo Coo has fallen asleep
- Never Known Questions
Chorus:
The cloud continues and the spot
Diminishes without even the
Hint of a glow.
Is glowing a continuous process
Or does the spot find its
Way out where it needs to be?
Spot the rot, oh spot the rot,
- Nobody Laughs When They Leave
Everyone comes to the Freak Show
To laugh at the Freaks and the Geeks
Everyone comes to the Freak Show
But nobody laughs when they leave.
We are only equal in the grave and in the dark
Said a man whose head was halfway eaten by a shark
Now if you ask me why I would continue on like this
I doubt that I would know so I could only make a guess
- Picnic in the Jungle
Afterwards, it's like a dream
You can't remember but it seems
To stay alive inside your mind
And prey upon your leisure time
It happens in an open spot
The air is sticky and it's hot
First they take away our clothes
Then they lay us down in rows
- Ship's A'Going Down
Catbird:
Why not live?
Chorus:
The catbird shrilled!
Catbird:
And give a guy a chance!
- Six More Miles
Oh, the rain is slowly fallin'
And my heart is so sore
Six more miles, i leave my darlin'
Never on this earth to meet no more
Six more miles to the graveyard
Six more miles, long and sad
Six more miles. I leave my darlin'
- Tent Peg in the Temple
He's dead and naked
I'm naked too
He's dead and naked
At least I'm, I'm still wearing shoes
Once there was an ugly woman
Who was told to tell the truth
And so she said we needed fighters
- The Electrocutioner
I wouldn't mind if I could find
A little electrocution.
Sometimes I feel I need it here,
A little electrocution.
The wire's hot, lights are red
A sparkle straight to my heart
I'm still livin' in the dark
- The Making of a Soul
Chorus:
Edweena went to calumet and left from there to college;
She took along a porcupine whose name was known as knowledge;
Now their relationship was fraught with pangs of loving hunger.
The Porcupine could question all, but all she knew was slumber.
Porcupine:
A huge easy cozy wants our kiss to triumph,
- The Sold-Out Artist
Out in the street and under the sun
I kissed his feet and loaded his gun
Sooner or later everyone does
Everybody feeds the fat boy
Everybody feeds the fat boy
They just don't get it
Vampires - vampires
- The Thing About Them
Now there ws this thing about them that caused me at times to doubt them,
or created conflict in my mind. Usually there was a he one, and there
also was a she one, but somehow they came out differently. And one of
them, when she was she, would smile and burn a hole in me; a hole that was
too hard for me to hide. Once I had a dream bout her, in a filed, alone
outside a tiny little cottage made of sticks. It was much to small to use
it, so she bumped her head and bruised it trying to get through the tiny
door. Afterwards, I went to tell her, but it was he I felt who nodded at
- The Weaver
Run, run, as fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man
You can look, look, hard as you can
You can't see me, I'm the Gingerbread Man
Poor old family of man
Never mind me, I'm just a Gingerbread Man
Only hours away could be a man with a million dollars
Only minutes away could be a guy with a gun
- Two Lips
Oh, we have to buy a tulip
Yes, we have to buy a tulip
Oh, we have to buy a tulip
So we'll sell our home
We will sell our clothes
And we'll sell our shoes
Everything we own
We'll sell to you